This Friday: Manchester openings at Plant Zero

This Friday at Plant Zero, opening receptions for Leigh Anne Chambers' "Unheimlich", Gary Cawood's "Excavation", Jessica Burke's and Jessica Sims's "Vintage Vices", and the Artspace members' exhibition will be held from 7-10 PM at Artspace.

At Art Works, receptions for "A Photographic Pilgrimage: Travels with my Camera and Cane" by Elisabeth Flynn-Chapman, Kathy Yost Benham's "Passing", "Recent Works" by Mark Shively, Terry Lynn Smith's "Art of Survival," Sheila Thomas's "Stop Motion Animation Meets Traditional Art," and the September All Media Show will be held from 7- 10 PM.



And at Russell/Projects, there will be a Fourth Friday reception for Priscila De Carvalho's exhibition, "Slick" from 7- 10 PM.

As always, check out the above venues' links for more images from and information about events.

Imminent Art Events!

Opening reception tonight at Reference Gallery for "MUTE," featuring works by John Henderson and Justin Swinburne- from 7- 11 PM

Closing receptions at Page Bond for Lana Waldrep's "New Paintings" and "Summer Solstice"
Tonight- 6 to 8 PM

Waldrep's "Flats"

"Sponge HQ" opening tonight at Anderson Gallery from 6- 9 PM (check out Ester's new website!). Also opening: "Imaging South Africa: Collection Projects by Siemon Allen"

Plant Zero/Manchester art openings tonight at Artspace, Artworks, and Russell/Projects
Tonight from 7-10 PM

Susan Jamison's work is part of "MISSIVE" currently showing at Russell/Projects

1708's Monster Drawing Rally- tomorrow, Aug. 28th from 2- 7 PM

Drawing by Mark Luetke

Manchester Openings This Friday

Artspace- opening receptions from 7-10 PM, "Strassen Kunst" (Street Art) features work by: Ottomatick, Reti, Daniel Johnson, Elegwa Wycliff, Hamilton Glass, Gee Cheung, Megan Mueller, Good Child/Tender Hooligan, Dr. Bastard, and Keeley Laures.

Also opening in Artspace: Martin McFadden, LRPS's "Strassen Kunst: Berlin" and work by Artspace members inspired by grafitti

ArtWorks- opening receptions from 7-10 PM for: Guy Raymond's "The Best Seat In the House," Jinseng Song's "International Great Impressions," Painting of Lonnie Howard, "Word Play" by Gail Butler, "Meditative Landscapes" by Janet Visser, and the July All Media Show



Work by Peregrine Honig

Russell/Projects- opening reception from 7-10 PM for "Missive" featuring work by Peregrine Honig, Susan Jamison, Aaron McIntosh, Claire Stigliani, and Helena Wurzel

(Interesting note- Peregrine Honig is/was part of Bravo's "Work of Art" reality show about art superstars in-the-making.)

Art Openings this Friday in Manchester

"Homegrown: Plant Zero @ Artspace"- opening this Fourth Friday from 7-10 PM

Fourth Friday receptions for Scott Hunt and Lori Esposito at Russell/Projects this Friday from 6-10 PM

And at Artworks, Fourth Friday opening receptions this Friday from 7-10 PM for:
Elizabeth D. Shafer's "Red, White and Blues"
Gordon Robertson's "Faces of the Forest"
Robert Pfeifer's "Timeless"
Richard Buhrman's "Interminable Works of Art"
"Derby Art: River City Rollergirls"
June All Media Art Show

I Love You a Bushel and a Link Monday

Richmond.com on Michael Jones McKean (RVA artist, prof, Guggenheim fellow)

Jumpin’ at VMFA will return June 3^rd in the new sculpture garden

Call for artists: Recycled Book Art at Art6

Call for artists: want to show your work as part of next Shockoe Wide Open? Contact Mary Fender at Frame Nation.

Illustrators Club Show opening at Ghostprint Gallery June 4th

Keith Ramsay tackles themes of racism and loss in “Diluted Loss” opening June 4^th at the Black History Museum

Art 180’s Big Show- opens May 26^th

Support Art on Wheels when you search and shop the interwebs

"Grotesque Heads", drawings by Dawn Latane now through June 6 at Chop Suey

New: Main Art's "X Gallery"

MAP's tips for artists’ portfolios

Gallery 5’s Sustainable Richmond forum group and show opening June 4th

Lots of shows opening in Manchester this Fourth Friday- Artspace, Art Works, reception at Russell Projects

***Artblog posts may be a little light this week... apologies in advance!

RVA Arts and Culture Districts: Follow-up by Art Works

Plant Zero

Recently, we reported on CultureWorks' developments in discussions of RVA arts and culture districts.

Art Works has information on their blog about what was discussed during the Manchester meeting in which that area's cultural venues met and answered questions provided by CultureWorks (for the purpose of further identifying how RVA culture districts might look and operate.)

Check it out to see how they answered CultureWorks' questions and to get a feel for the next step in this ongoing process of defining Richmond's cultural identity.

Call for Artists: Recycled Art Exhibition at Art Works

Entries will be juried at Art Works in Plant Zero this Friday and Saturday by Russell/Projects' director Heather Russell and Glenda Kotchish of Art Works.

Click here for times and for more information about the exhibition.

Art Openings this Friday

"The Silence of God, The Unbearable Silence of God" at Reference Gallery- with an opening reception from 7- 11 PM. Featuring work by:

Matthew Brett (Richmond)
Andrew Laumann (Baltimore)
Jason Lazarus (Chicago)
Peter Sutherland (New York)
Ann Woo (Hong Kong)
Damon Zucconi (New York)

Selected works from Artspace's National Juried Printmaking and Photography Exhibition

Fourth Friday openings at Artspace and Artworks- Artspace's National Juried Printmaking and Photography Exhibition will have an opening reception from 7- 10 PM, and numerous openings at Artworks, including Beth Nixon's "A Little Bit of Everything" (reception also from 7-10 PM).

Beth Nixon's "A Little Bit of Everything" opens this Friday at Artworks

Link-lite Monday

Carmelo Midili, "untitled5," 2008
Midili's show "Spaziotempo" opens this Friday at Artspace

Student art showcased at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Daniel Pink Creativity Forum to be held at UR- more info here

Collectors Night at Visarts- March 19th

RAGE on Gallery 5's Sleight of Hand

RTD on Connecticut's new home

First Fridays is growing

RTD on Gerald Donato

Andrew Rhea now showing at Henry Gallery

New director for Modlin Center

Fourth Friday openings this Friday at Artspace: Laurie Hoen's and Holly Smith's "Places on Earth: A Brush with Nature," Carmelo Midili's "Spaziotempo," and Hazel Buys' "Baker's Dozen"

Fourth Friday openings at Artworks, too- and while you're in the Manchester area, enjoy a Fourth Friday cocktail reception with Russell/Projects and Helena Wurzel's "Vanitas"

RVA Mag/RVATV's "The Process: Episode 19" features Richmond artist Damion Bond a.k.a. "The Muse"

Lots of Manchester Art Openings Tonight!

Helena Wurzel's "Vanitas" opens tonight at Russell/Projects

Go check out art tonight at:

Artspace- opening from 7-10 pm

Artworks- from 7-10 pm

and

Russell/Projects- from 5-9 pm

"A History Report, Not a Future Report: Recent Works by Jessica Sims" at Artworks' Skylight Gallery

on view until November 22nd

"Napoleon & the Ziggy Pig"

"Ted. Theodore. Logan"

"Bill. S. Preston. Esquire"

"Save the Humans!"

"Bugglegum and cavemen"

"Two heads are better than one"

"Put them in the... Iron Maiden"

"Ludwig hits the right notes"

"Do you know when the Mongols ruled China?"

We really dig Sims's formalist paintings with their quirky titles- go check out this show!

More information (including artist statement) here.

We Want To See... Jessica Sims at Artworks' Skylight Gallery

"A History Report, Not a Future Report: New Works By Jessica Sims"

Opening reception this Friday, October 23rd, 7-10 pm



More information here.